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Note that what you're about to read are NOT observations made through the lens of shipping. Even if the scenes in episodes 2 and 7 were not meant to be romantic, DiMartino must've known when he wrote them that they weren't exactly a gentle pat on he back either & would be enough to get even non-shippers wondering. Especially the way blushes have usually occurred in this series & its predecessor, especially with Bolin & Opal still fresh in viewer's minds. Then there's episode 8, which is when I really started wondering "Hey, it might actually happen.". Usually when people say "You're so sweet", they're talking to their 5-year old grandkid, or other relative, or to someone they have a romantic relationship. I think it's quite rare that this phrase would be used outside these 2 situations, instead of "You're so KIND.". Also, it wasn't specified in Episode 2 WHAT Mako & Bolin would not understand, which is especially odd considering that they've both had traumatic pasts, probably more so than Asami's past. In the finale as they step into the pillar of light & xylophone music plays, you can see their other hands also turn and clasp so that they are holding all 4 hands while facing eacho ther. I don't believe many platonic people do that. If the same scene with the same music & lighting were with Korra & a guy, no one would call it platonic. Any comments?

I think they are both just vulnerable. They both endured recent traumatic experiences. That's all. They are acknowledging that they are both there for each other.

I never shipped anyone, but I felt like the end was a hint to Korrasami, which I'm happy with. Even if it was just to tease people who shipped Korrasami.

While I agree that testing homosexuality on kids TV is a real gymnastic business, I hate the cliché of gay people having sudden epiphanies about their own sexuality after they've been in the straight relationship.

I know this college professor in real life whose mom suddenly "realized" how gay she was after marrying and divorcing a Vietnam war veteran and having the college professor and his sister along the way. I find it impossible to believe that gay people suddenly become gay.

It's one of my pet peeves because being raised in a strict Christian family, and then having to research pretty straight forward concepts like evolution and homosexuality on my own, I've come to understand that it's there for the long haul. When you introduce a character like Korra who's practically swimming in boys all day long for three seasons straight and then suddenly rewrite her as a budding lesbian in her late teens/early twenties, you lose some credibility as to what your modus oporandi is.

In his twitter post, Bryne says that the show was touch and go as far as plot goes, and to the extent that Korra loses her connection to the past avatars and wipes a man from existence, it makes sense. There were slimy moments in the series and the whole ignorant lesbian thing was one of them. How could one not know they were attracted to girls, especially one who was trained since childhood to hone her senses as a spiritual leader. It was very forced and I don't buy for a second that Bryne was the original Korrasami shipper.